Student Laptops?

What course? It could be a case that all you need is powerpoint and maybe excel or word etc and you could get away with a basic netbook.

OR just get a Mac and leave that dirty windows shít behind and watch it burn.

Campus.ie has some discounts/offers

If its just for Internet, how about a tablet
Love the Nexus 7

http://www.carphonewarehouse.ie/Product/strong-Google-strongNexus-7-32GB-WiFi/238671/328.0

New one is due out soon with some nice updates

i give this advice.

get a good processor , id recommend an i5 intel
id go for a tough brand , id recommend Lenovo.

will you be bringing it back and forth from uni?
if so , a metal casing and portability/battery life

sitting in the digs?
larger screen and bulkier machine

check a few machines out in currys etc , get a feel for the keyboard , the weight , strength of it and of course general aesthetics.

pay €550+ for a decent machine and it will do for 3-4 years.
buy the cheapest model in currys and your work will suffer and youll be buying again in 1-2 years.
pick a machine and search online for the best price.

id recommend this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-Ideapad-15-6-inch-Laptop-Chocolate/dp/B00B2HVYT6/ref=sr_1_4?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1376945479&sr=1-4&keywords=lenovo+i7

get a legit copy of Office.
university is a new product , share with a flatmate and get a copy each for laptop and phone for £20 each.

https://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/university/

Corvo Attano wrote: »

Dont even start...




OP since it seems you wont be doing any graphically intensive work you should start looking at some of the other questions on the checklist.

Will it be used for gaming?
Need a built in DVD drive?
Need a long battery life?
Will it face a lot of moving about?
Is size an issue?

You could buy any laptop just for Office and Youtube

+1 to this

The two fundamental questions you need to ask yourself are:
No. 1: What specs do you need? and
No. 2: How much / little are you willing to spend?

I bought my college laptop (an intel i5 core Asus for €500) last year from http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/ and it's served brilliantly. Of course I had light to medium gaming in mind as well as assignments so if you only want it for assignments ie: word, powerpoint, you can spend a lot less than €500.

Also http://www.argos.ie/ does pretty decent deals sometimes! As for PC world, it often is far more expensive than websites, but you can often the occasional reasonably priced model.

TBH you'll get much better advice on the computer/technology forum on boards, some really nice and helpful people on it

stetyrrell wrote: »

OR just get a Mac and leave that dirty windows shít behind and watch it burn.

Or get Windows and dual boot it with Ubuntu.

A student laptop doesn't have to be very expensive. Definitely shop around. I got an 11" netbook last year at a decent price. It has 4GB RAM, so it's actually more powerful than many of the larger laptops out there.

Anybody reccomend a CSIT labtop, obviously need solid Java/ c++ programme etc, but would want to stay under 500/600 territory?

jrmb wrote: »

LibreOffice is a free alternative to Microsoft Office. It's quite nifty and could save you a considerable amount of money.

Just use google docs tbh, unless you need some mad formatting.

diarmo06 wrote: »

Anybody reccomend a CSIT labtop, obviously need solid Java/ c++ programme etc, but would want to stay under 500/600 territory?

I was a mac user throughout CS so I cant really help with a suggestion, but the bigger the screen the better. I had to do some work in Java on a netbook once and it was a nightmare.

I'd get in touch with the department and see what they suggest, some colleges have deals with manufacturers.

Sometimes you need specific software, mate of mine is doing social sciences and they had to get CPSS or something like that.

Think it was arranged throught the college though.